Despite some folks poo-pooing the transit as “just a black dot in front of a bigger white dot”, I’d say the Venus transit was a worldwide event! Not only that, an event where people looked up which certainly doesn’t happen enough. There are lots of good photos on the internet from Tuesday, and they are not hard to find. Here’s a few that I liked, but by no means is this list exhaustive.

Over the last week the Space Shuttle mock-up Explorer was moved to its new home in Houston and Enterprise was moved to its new home in New York. I already wrote about “Shuttlebration” in last week’s post. Here is My photo gallery of Explorer’s arrival.